Reuters, December 27, 2007
By Augustine Anthony
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by a suicide bomber on Thursday, plunging the nuclear-armed country into one of the worst crises in its 60-year history.
Her death after an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi triggered a wave of violence, especially in her native Sindh province, and was likely to lead to the postponement of January 8 polls meant to return Pakistan to a civilian-led democracy.
Bhutto, 54, had hoped the huge popular following she enjoyed among the Pakistani poor would propel her to power for the third time as prime minister in an election meant to stabilize a country wracked by Islamist violence.
She died in hospital in Rawalpindi, the home of the Pakistan army and the same city where her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was hanged in 1979 after being deposed by a military coup.
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